Thursday, February 12, 2015

FDA System For Recording Adverse Drug Events Perilously Deficient

The system that the US FDA is using
to gather and report on information about dangerous side effects from
medications is extremely unreliable and needs a thorough overall, according to
a study reported on by the New York Times. The main problem
is that drug companies are not submitting their data properly.

"The study, by the Institute for
Safe Medication Practices, found that only about half of reports of serious side
effects submitted by manufacturers met basic standards for completeness,
containing a patient’s age, sex and the date the event took place. Reports
collected by the F.D.A. itself, by contrast, were found to meet those basic
standards in 85 percent of cases."

"The difference is noteworthy
because drug makers’ reports account for close to 97 percent of all adverse
events that are collected by the system," continued the Times. "The report
analyzed more than 847,000 case reports received for the 12-month period that
ended in March of 2014. Providing such details can be key to evaluating a drug
and how different groups of people, such as women or older people, might react
to it."

Amendment 8, US Constitution, 1791

Amendment 14, US Constitution 1868

Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Equal Under Law

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D Bunker is Not a Jewish American.
D Bunker is Not a Gay American.
D Bunker is an American, Period. And this PO'd American has had 10 times more than twice too much of enough of Anyone claiming special rights for themselves over Anyone else. Far too many good men and women of all races, creeds and colors have given Everything and more to establish that None of Us are better than the Next of Us, AS LAW, to allow Any Ideology, especially one which is Wholly Smoke and Mirrors, to rule and ruin the lives of Any of us.